No law that says you have to - sm
Posted By: Laura E. on 2009-03-18
In Reply to: Would you go to a wedding of - against this
give a gift at the wedding. If you chose to you have a year to do so. If you cannot afford much or anything then just give a nice card with your best wishes. Or if you can spring for it, maybe a $25 gift card to a local restaurant (and a card). Or do something hand-made that doesn't break the bank for you. It is horribly rude to RSVP then not show. I had 3 people do that at my wedding and it cost us $180 or so. That would have paid for 1/3 of my honeymoon (we spent about $600 total on our honeymoon, 5 nights at a B&B in Niagra-by-the-Lake in Canada). One of the offenders was my husband's boss who was also a "friend". He just never showed, gave some lame excuse about his wife not feeling well that morning. (he could have come alone). No way to prove or disprove of course. Never sent a gift or even a card. Ticked me off for a long time, I could give a rat's butt about the gift, but a card at least would have been nice and know he was thinking about us, so obviously he was "planning" on coming with no card or gift himself. I think he woke up that morning and decided he did not want to drive 2 hours to his underlings wedding (or buy/send a gift or card). If that was the case he should never had said yes in the first place. So, yeah, still a little hot under the collar on that one, that and he lied a lot to my DH about work things. Unfortunately his karma caught up to him, he died within a year of retiring, had been on the Atkin's diet for a month, had a massive heart attack. I think he was 66 or 67.
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